This urgent secret letter was written by Fan Chun, the younger brother of the category, and after reading the content of the letter, the category didn't even have time to think about it, and got up late at night to enter the palace to meet the emperor of Liguo.

When the category put the letter in front of the desk of the old emperor of Liguo, the emperor who had never been sober felt so sober for the first time.

Fan Chun's letter mainly introduced the behavior of Zhou Cheng during this time. The letter said that after Zhou Cheng relied on the danger of Pingguan and easily won the victory, in the name of recovering the three counties, he was reluctant to return to the court, and recruited soldiers inside and outside Pingguan, as if he really had the intention of sending troops to the three counties.

Seeing this, the old emperor of Liguo began to commit suspicion again, combined with the remarks circulating among the people some time ago, the old emperor began to be anxious, and what made him even more uneasy was the following sentence.

Fan Chun said that he saw with his own eyes that Zhou Cheng had correspondence with Chu Jun, but Zhou Cheng was strict in his work, and every time he read it, he burned it directly, leaving no evidence.

Why did the generalissimo of the Tang Li army communicate with the Chu army, but threatened to recover the three counties? Could it be that he was ......

At this moment, the old emperor's heart was completely confused, and he didn't even dare to continue looking down, his intuition told him that this matter was not simple, but curiosity drove him to continue browsing.

The following is Fan Chun's statement on what Zhou Cheng has done recently.

The letter said that after the emperor rewarded him with a thousand gold, Zhou Cheng gave him all the money he had twice rewarded to the soldiers, and did not leave a penny for himself. After receiving Zhou Cheng's reward, the soldiers expressed their allegiance to Zhou Quan, and their morale was high, and Fan Chun said that the fanaticism of this group of soldiers was something he had never seen in his life.

Moreover, Fan Chun's final statement in the letter can prove these last behaviors by any person in the army.

Of course, what he said was naturally explaining to the emperor that what he said was the truth, and if the emperor didn't believe it, he could casually find someone to question.

Seeing this, the old emperor was already covered in cold sweat, and these actions of Zhou Jian formed four words in his mind, "support the army and respect yourself".

Thinking of this, the old emperor slapped the table angrily, "How can this be reasonable! Immediately draft an edict and transfer Zhou Cheng back to me." ”

Seeing that the emperor was angry, Fan Chun hurriedly replied in a panic: "Minister, obey the order." ”

But whether he was really scared, or whether he had other ideas, I'm afraid only he knew.

In the Pingguan City Guard, Zhou Quan's face was excited, as if something big was about to happen.

"Marshal, why are you so happy?" said Fan Chun on the side.

Zhou Cheng glanced at him, although he lived in the same city, he looked down on Fan Chun very much, not only because his brother's category was different from himself, but the most important thing was that as a dignified general, he was a doorman's talent, which was really despicable.

It was for this reason that he didn't even want to use this man to defend the city.

Now Fan Chun leaned in almost flattery, making him instinctively disgusted.

"General Fan just needs to do his own thing, and don't worry about the rest. After speaking, he ignored Fan Chun's blushing face and walked straight out of the mansion.

Looking at Zhou Cheng, who was getting farther and farther away, he snorted coldly: "Hmph, I think how long can you go on the rampage?"

After Zhou Cheng left the city guard, he came directly to the garrison of the Pingguan garrison, and he recently wanted to gather troops and horses to do something big.

Pingguan originally had 3,000 defenders, and later the field was defeated in a battle, and after Zhou Cheng fled back to Pingguan, he immediately gathered the troops stationed in the two counties near Pingguan in Pingguan City to resist the Chu army.

In the fierce battle for a month, 30,000 people were killed and wounded, nearly 20,000 were wounded, and more than 10,000 people could barely move temporarily.

After arranging the troops in the camp, Zhou Cheng began to put his mind at ease, and now, as long as he gives an order, these 10,000 people can immediately follow him out of the customs to fight and recover the three counties and Shangrao.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

It's just that Dongfeng didn't wait, but waited for the holy decree of the capital.

Zhou Cheng never thought that at this critical moment, the imperial court would let him return to Beijing to report on his work and accept the reward.

Isn't this nonsense, the level of customs has not been decided, the three counties have not been restored, but the imperial court wants to celebrate the merits?

At this time, Zhou Cheng really thought that Emperor Liguo's holy decree was to summon him back to receive a reward, and he was completely unaware of the danger that might come.

"Will be outside, the king's order will not be affected. I would like to ask my father-in-law to go back and report to His Majesty, and say that he will wait for the ministers to recover the lost territory and accept the reward in the Hui Dynasty. Zhou Cheng said to the eunuch who came to announce the decree.

The eunuch is also an old man, and he naturally sees the danger here, and seeing that Zhou Cheng is reluctant to go back, she reminded euphemistically: "Generalissimo Zhou, the old slave still persuades the generalissimo to go back, there are some things, the generalissimo will naturally be able to explain it when he goes back." ”

But at this time, Zhou Cheng was thinking about how to regain the lost ground, and he didn't pay attention to the eunuch's reminder at all.

Seeing Zhou Quan's appearance, the eunuch had to sigh, reluctantly withdrew the holy decree, and returned the same way.

"Snap ......" The old emperor of Liguo flipped the chapter on the imperial case to the ground with one palm.

"It's the other way around, what will be rejected by the foreign monarch's order, what will take back the land of the three counties, all of them are excuses, I think he is ready to take the Tiandu City at that time!

It can be seen that the emperor of Liguo is really angry this time, and has already decided that Zhou Cheng is supporting the army and self-respecting, and even wants to deliberately rebel.

Then, a token covered with the emperor's seal flew towards Pingguan.

The second time he received the emperor's token, took away his military power, and the tone was completely different from the first time, Zhou Cheng had a premonition that something was wrong, but seeing that the plan was about to be carried out, he really couldn't give up this huge temptation, and rejected the emperor's token for the second time.

Immediately after, the third, fourth, and fifth, a total of seven tokens came from Tiandu City, and the frequency was higher than the other.

Seeing such frequent military orders being transmitted, the generals around Zhou Cheng were full of suspicions, and some even thought that Zhou Cheng had the intention of rebellion.

And Zhou Cheng also began to slowly become disheartened, the emperor urged him tightly, and he couldn't wait for that signal, the army in the camp was disheartened, and he had long since lost his original bravery.

He couldn't understand why the emperor was urging him like this, he had already written no less than ten military orders and sent them to the imperial court, but he had not received a response, and he was indeed a little disheartened at the moment.

"General, the eighth token has arrived. "Soldiers came in and reported.

Zhou Cheng nodded, waved his hand and retreated the soldier, and collapsed in his chair decadently, at this time, he seemed to be more than ten years old in an instant.

"The country is like this, the court is like this, the emperor is like this! Zuo luck is not long in coming. Zhou Cheng said with emotion.

Then he took off the armor of his whole body, took out the tiger talisman seal, and finally sighed, opened the gate of the city guard's mansion, and prepared to leave with the people from the capital.

As for who will lead the Pingguan soldiers to resist the Chu army after he leaves, it is no longer something he should consider.

As soon as he opened the gate of the castle guard's mansion, the scene in front of him shocked Zhou Cheng.

The city guard was full of soldiers standing outside the mansion, and they heard that Zhou Cheng was going back to Beijing, so they came here spontaneously.

"Marshal, who will take us to defend against the Chu army when you leave?"

"Marshal, stay!"

"yes, stay. “

The soldiers looked at the plain clothes in front of them, and knelt on the ground and pleaded.

And this scene happened to be recorded by Fan Chun, and the book was transmitted directly to Tiandu City.

Zhou Quan's eyes were full of tears, looking at the group of brothers who had died with him, he smiled faintly, and finally did not say a word, and left with the officials from the capital.

As soon as Zhou Cheng left, the defense of Pingguan was naturally handed over to Fan Chun. Although Fan Chun's grade is lower than that of Zhou, it is still not low in the entire level.

And Fan Chun, who took back the position that originally belonged to him, and suddenly had more than 10,000 more people under his command, suddenly felt a little at a loss.

But these are temporary, he is very clever to borrow Zhou Cheng's prestige, claiming that he is Zhou Cheng's henchman, he admires him very much in his life, and gains the favor of this group of soldiers, and then follows Zhou Cheng's previous arrangement, so that everything goes in an orderly manner.

Seeing that he was able to manage more than 10,000 people in an orderly manner, Fan Chun couldn't help but have some illusions about his abilities.

And Zhou Quan's way back to Beijing was also full of problems, of course, there was no blind thief on the way, but he accidentally received a secret letter halfway, and it was personally sent by the palace guard.

A person who watched the gate of the palace would actually come to deliver the letter in person, which is enough to see the special significance of this letter.

After Zhou Cheng opened the letter, he only felt that his blood was surging, his scalp was numb, and his whole body was like falling into an ice cellar.

There is not much content in the letter, mainly it is a detailed list of the various crimes he committed, such as disrespecting the decree, privately transferring troops, and having no monarch, etc., a total of 20 articles, and even shaking out some trivial things that happened to him a few years ago.

Of course, these are of little meaning to this week, after all, there is no excuse for the crime that he wants to add, he is at most angry and anxious, what really makes him cold is the landing behind the letter, with three big characters written, no forgiveness.

Kill!

This is for his life! Zhou Cheng only then reacted, at the beginning, the emperor did not want to reward himself at all, and all along, the emperor he was loyal to had never given him real trust.

His heart was a little cold.

It is a sad and lamenable thing that a dignified marshal of the state should have killed himself in the middle of the road because of all kinds of suspicions.

"Huh...... Hahahaha...... Hahaha, I am worthy of the sky, worthy of the country, the way of heaven is clear, life and death go back and forth. After speaking, Zhou Cheng drew his sword and killed himself.

Seeing Zhou Quan's appearance, the guard and the surrounding soldiers stood up and saluted one after another, sending off the generalissimo who had made great contributions to the country.

And at the same time as Zhou Cheng killed himself, in the Zhou Mansion in the capital, a group of black-clothed people suddenly broke into the mansion and began to kill indiscriminately.

In the end, there were more than 300 people in the Zhou Mansion, and only one survived.